ext_86366 ([identity profile] aroraborealis.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] davis_square 2009-12-11 06:54 pm (UTC)

Let me preface my comment by saying that I don't mind the plane noise, and I am happy to mock people who do.

However, the argument that the noise is a good trade-off for less time circling in the air or waiting at the airport or what-have-you is a bad one, because not everyone gets to make that trade-off. It works for the set of people who both live in areas of increased plane noise AND who fly or use the airport such that things are better now than they were. For the many, many, many people who live in areas where plane noise is a factor of daily life and who can't afford or otherwise have life circumstances that don't provide for travel by plane, this isn't a trade-off.

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